Rise of the Argonauts
The highly loved film – Rise of the Argonauts – is being made into a brand new game by Codemasters. Codemasters has always been a favorite company of mine, making really great games such as Severance.
Rise of the Argonauts will be set in ancient Greece, with players leading a team of famous warriors including Jason, Hercules, and Atalanta on an epic quest through the ancient land to find the golden fleece. Each level will be a different island based on a certain old God. Each island should take roughly two hours.
You start off as king, meaning that you are already well equipped and know how to fight. Every item will be helpful in some way in the game and nothing will be left behind.
They key feature with this game appears to be the combat. Rather than in most games you have a standard health bar, this games seems to be far more realistic. A blow with a sword is likely to kill your opponent, but you yourself are much more vulnerable. This makes combat much more strategic and brings with it a much faster pace.
There are a variety of weapons and shield, all of which can be destroyed with carefully placed attacks, or like the spear can be thrown. You must remember though, because this game brings a much higher level of reality, you will have to collect a thrown weapon or replace a damaged weapon.
You will also have to choose just two of your companions to venture with you, bringing a high depth of strategy into the game. They not only work and fight by themselves, but also fight with each other and even you as well.
Another part of the game is maintaining relationships with the Gods. Please some and they will reward you, displease others and they may do their best to hinder or even torment you. You can also form relationships with other people you meet and they, in return, may come to your aid in an hour of need.
This is just a brief description of what the game has to offer, but from what i’ve read it seems like Codemasters once again have tried to make a game righting all the wrongs that games have today. I wish them the best and hope it turns out to be as good as it sounds!
Artanis’s Hunter Guide
I have pretty much finished the first set of updates. This is by far the biggest update the site has had and most likily ever will do. It took a lot of work completely reworing fonts and layouts but it’s all sorted now.
Images seem not to be appearing currently which is a problem, but i’ve laid out a list of odds and ends to sort out so it’s not too much of a problem. My current tasks are taking a screenshot for each post and finishing off the few posts i havn’t done. After that, i can begin work on other posts.
I also need to somehow create a Forum. This will most likily be added onto my main site, with the hunter guide just being a section of it. However i’ve never done anything of the kind before so it’s going to take a lot of work.
I also have work to do writting other posts, and i have a website to design and another to update. Not to mention posting here a little more and getting some free time to do what i want!
Well i’m glad i got it updated at last, it’s taken a huge weight off my mind. =)
Hunter Guide Art Competition
Ok so i am running an art competition for the homepage of my new hunter guide.
- The image must be of a hunter. It most show the hunters head, all the way down to the knees .
- A female draenei will be preferred, although not necessarily needed.
- If the figure could have two duel wield weapons at waist and bow in hand that would be great.
- The rest is up to you.
The winner will receive a large amount of gold for their main character (200-500g depending on how hard it is to make the gold). Their image will be printed on the front of the guides homepage, and the written guide, and their name will be noted on the image at the bottom right.
Runners up will have the chance to have their work published else where in the guide along with their name.
All entries must be sent to pie_masters@hotmail.co.uk with the name “Art Competition”
I wish you all the best of luck!
Hunter Guide Updates
After two weeks spent on holiday I had a long time to think about what to do with my upcoming reworked Hunter Guide. After lengthy consideration i decided that the entire guide will be available on my current guide blog for free.
Anyone interested i in for a real treat. This guide will cover pretty much every subject and in my opinion will surpass any other guide out there, free of at a price. I can say that because i have read many of the top quality guides out there and feel that what i have done not only goes into more detail, but has a higher quality to it as well.
The big news is that i will be releasing the first 4 chapters out relatively soon. The rest will be laid out and posted once i have written it. I hope that every post will have a relevant screenshot and there will even be videos to help out with certain sections.
The guide is not based at any single level, allowing it to have as much use to almost every player and not go out of date with patches and expansions. It can also be very easily updated and even has slots ready to add and update information for Wrath of the Lich King.
But don’t worry, if you use the current site that will be remaining, but moved into one section of the same site. It may be slightly more difficult to navigate around but i will do my best to make the entire site user friendly.
Well i’m off to start the project. Wish me luck!
